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U.S. Secretly Shipped New Long Range Missile System To Ukraine
The United States last week secretly shipped a new long-range missile system to Ukraine, and Ukrainian forces immediately used the weapons to attack a Russian military airfield in Crimea last Wednesday and Russian troops in the country’s southeast overnight on Tuesday, according to a senior U.S. official.
The missiles can reach deeper into occupied Ukraine, including Crimea, a hub of Russian air and ground forces, and supply nodes for Moscow’s forces in the country’s southeast.
In a major policy shift, President Biden secretly approved the decision to send more than 100 of the longer-range missiles in mid-February.
Administration officials kept the shipment secret to avoid tipping off the Russians.
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If you discovered your nation was secretly aiding another country in a conflict, would it change your perception of your government and why?
@9LSMN7H1wk1W
I'm not sure how to feel about this, I just feel like they are just trying to help a place that has been suffering and that I support it.
@9LSMBGJ1wk1W
yes, because war is the last thing this country needs.
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Maybe it would depend on the thing and the reasoning
@9LSLZDS 1wk1W
yes because I wouldn't be able to trust them to not know if we will start a war.
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What do you think about the ethical implications of one country secretly supplying advanced military technology to another?
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I think it is moraliy questionable and such actions should be under scrintiny by the people
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I think they did that to avoid the attention from Russia.
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I cannot form a solid opinion, because I do not have the whole story.
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They are hiding it from somebody if it has to be hidden
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U.S. Tests A.I. Weapons Against Russia In Ukraine War
The US military is reportedly using the Ukraine conflict to test a new artificial intelligence technology that helps detect targets on the battlefield using drone footage.
Dubbed Project Maven, research into the technology was initially picked up as a government contract by Google six years ago, according to the outlet. However, after pushback from engineers and employees, who did not want to take part in building an AI tool for military use, the tech giant stepped away from the project, which was picked up by other contractors.
Now, the technology is being tested on the front line in Ukraine,… Read more
One huge problem is that contemporary, technological warfare (except for minor complications like drones on air and water) is largely based on air supremacy, or at least superiority.
The West has felt itself constrained in offering the extended systems that allow Ukraine to seriously control their skies. We have said we are giving Ukraine F-16s in numbers that are essentially performative, but not in the numbers (or with the equipment) that could support the fleets on A-10’s we have moldering in our deserts, a weapon designed for just this problem against this very opponent.
Without total air supremacy to protect them, A10s are slow fat juicy targets to an enemy that has modern air defense weapon capabilities (like Russia). They'd be unusable in Ukraine, unless the goal was to get a lot of air crews killed.
One of the reasons they are being retired from the service as hopelessly 'obsolete'.
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What is amazing to me is the echo chamber in the U.S. that was ecstatic over more funding for the Ukraine war, thinking that this was going to win the war for Ukraine. We just have to send more money and weapons, and that will do the trick.
Ukraine is losing too many people to continue this war. Russia & China will prevail Zelensky refuses to negotiate.
Congress is foolishly promoting wars not in our best interest.
In a war between the U.S. and China, a key element will likely be autonomous drone swarms guided, not by GPS, but by AI.
Of course - the U.S. will have to buy all its drones from China.
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Nancy Pelosi Calls On Netanyahu To Resign
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should resign, calling him an obstacle to a two-state solution.
Speaking about the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and the prime minister's counteroffensive, Pelosi said Netanyahu is ultimately responsible.
"We recognize Israel's right to protect itself. We reject the policy and the practice of Netanyahu. Terrible," she said in an interview with RTÉ's Six One News in Ireland. "What could be worse than what he has done in response?"
"I don't know whether he's afraid of peace, incapable of peace, or just doesn't want peace, but he has been an obstacle to the two-state solution," she added.
Israel has the capacity to pinpoint a target from several countries away, as in the precise bombing of the Hamas leader while he was in a vehicle traveling 45 MPH and not a single person or building was injured or destroyed in that attack except the target, yet Netanyahu tossed bombs that killed 15,000 children in their backyard and called them collateral damage and “just in the wrong place.”
THAT’S why Netanyahu must resign! He’s a murderer.
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Cool--now do Hamas. Were those people at the music festival just in the wrong place too?
Shameful. Now BOTH Schumer & Pelosi have demanded that the elected leader of Israel resign.
Not Hamas. Not Iran. Not China, Russia, or North Korea.
Israel.
It’s not just the fringe of the Democrat party that’s anti-Israel. It’s the leadership.
Ah yes, because clearly Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are the real enemies of Israel, not the actual terrorist organizations that seek to destroy it.
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This does not go far enough; the country of Israel should be embargoed in the same way South Africa was until they end the Apartheid and genocide
Never mind he was elected and never mind 85%+ Israelis support his Gaza war and how it is being conducted. If anything, they want quicker pace of it.
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Senate Passes Ukraine, Israel Aid
The Senate passed a long-delayed $95.3 billion foreign-aid package sending much-needed ammunition and military equipment to beleaguered Ukrainian soldiers and fortifying Israel’s missile defense systems, while also forcing the sale of Chinese-controlled TikTok in the U.S.
The 79-to-18 vote brought to a close months of wrenching debate over Ukraine that sharply split the Republican Party, with rank-and-file members openly rebelling against their leaders. The fight also called into question both how far the U.S. would go to defend the country, now in the third year of trying to repel Russi… Read more
As the "bad guys" drift into Moscow & Beijing's orbit, the West's military industrial complex is gradually running out of "safe" wars to profit from. Eventually, the buffers will be gone & their only option will be a catastrophic direct war against Russia or China (nuclear WW3).
Lesson from Mike Johnson: All it takes to get the media to change from mocking and reviling you to slobbering you with praise is to do what they want. It only takes $100B and the betrayal of your voters' policy goals, but what are those silly things compared to praise from the media!
Just amazing people pretending that Trump didn’t give him permission to do this.
It’s the other way around Trump goes along with anything the Congressional Republicans do. It’s why he signed every Omibus bill Ryan gave him and the corporate tax cuts.
He’s a follower, not a leader.
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Lindsey Graham, who strategized with Trump to pass the giant war funding bill, explains the true meaning of "America First" -- as contrasted with "isolationism"
GRAHAM: "America First says, let's help Israel. Let's help Ukraine. Let's turn it into a loan rather than a grant"
Nothing unites the US political system like dumping $100 billion into the permanent war sinkhole
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Well this should do it. I expect Ukrainian troops to take Moscow by May Day and Putin will be brought to The Hague to face justice. We just needed one more spending bill from our brave warmongers in congress.
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Trump Advisors Say He Was "Tricked" Into Supporting Ukraine Funding Bill
On Thursday Trump advisor Steve Bannon said:
"People around Trump talked him into this fiasco with [Mike] Johnson. Trump was lighting up Johnson behind the scenes on Thursday and Friday about this complete debacle."
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North Korea And Iran Officials Meet To Discuss New "Cold War"
A high-profile North Korean delegation is making a rare foreign visit to Iran, the state-run KCNA news agency has reported. The last time officials from Pyongyang made a publicly announced trip to Tehran was in 2019.
Last week, South Korea’s spy agency, the National Intelligence Service (NIS), said it is “keeping tabs on whether the North Korean technology was included in Iran’s ballistic missiles launched against Israel, given the North and Iran’s missile cooperation in the past.”
Embracing the idea of a “new Cold War,” North Korean leader Kim Jong Un… Read more
